Facing our pain points is the most challenging part of the human experience.

Many of us numb our feelings, repress our memories and orphan the parts of us deemed unacceptable.

While the ego employs these strategies for self-preservation, they often come at the expense of destroying the soul.

Although we may believe we are coping well, the psyche unconsciously projects this unintegrated material into the world around us. This can manifest as disharmony in relationships, misalignment with our values and a lack of inner peace, often without any awareness of the underlying cause.

Additionally, avoiding the felt sense of emotion can leave us disconnected from the body and its innate capacity to process and release emotional experiences. What remains unacknowledged can continue to influence our physical and emotional wellbeing.

While society has conditioned us to view vulnerability as weakness, meeting our pain is perhaps the most radical act of courage there is.

Not only is it essential to our healing, it is also an act of reclaiming our power.

It is a remembering of our inherent worth.